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Consulate bringing injured boy's relatives to US

9-year-old boy severely injured

Community members and loved ones Wednesday evening held a vigil for almost an entire family killed in a violent Lodi crash one day ago.

SOURCE: Claire Doan/KCRA

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9-year-old boy severely injured

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Updated: 6:33 AM PDT Oct 25, 2013

Mexican Consulate officials in Sacramento are working to bring relatives from Guerrero, Mexico, to the bedside of the 9-year-old boy severely injured in a Lodi traffic collision that killed his pregnant mother, father and three siblings.Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, the Mexican consul general, tells the Sacramento Bee that officials are expediting US travel permissions to allow two sets of grandparents from Mexico to visit Eden Miranda.The newspaper says the third-grader from Lodi remained in critical condition Thursday.The rest of his family died when a speeding SUV barreled into the family pickup on a residential street Tuesday. A total of six cars were involved and 12 people were injured.Investigators are looking into reports that the driver of the SUV was speeding and on his cellphone moments earlier.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Mexican Consulate officials in Sacramento are working to bring relatives from Guerrero, Mexico, to the bedside of the 9-year-old boy severely injured in a Lodi traffic collision that killed his pregnant mother, father and three siblings.

Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, the Mexican consul general, tells the Sacramento Bee that officials are expediting US travel permissions to allow two sets of grandparents from Mexico to visit Eden Miranda.

The newspaper says the third-grader from Lodi remained in critical condition Thursday.

The rest of his family died when a speeding SUV barreled into the family pickup on a residential street Tuesday. A total of six cars were involved and 12 people were injured.

Investigators are looking into reports that the driver of the SUV was speeding and on his cellphone moments earlier.